October 13, 2025

Global environmental revenue hit another all-time high in this year's ranking with strong drivers and government support, but firms see market risks in big federal funding, policy and legislative shifts already happening—and they are taking steps to prepare.

ENR Top Green Firms: Rewards Outgrow Risks

Evolving third-party sustainability certifications drive green building market revenue amid intensifying climate challenges

Emell D. Adolphus

Jonathan Keller

October 9, 2025

Federal funding clawbacks targeting sustainability-minded programs are expected to stunt U.S. 2050 emissions goals by as much as 7 billion tonnes by 2030, experts warn.

Hammertech Finds Safety Insights in Study Analyzing Thousands of Jobsite Incidents

More than 75,000 incidents between 2018 and 2024 were studied in new report

Jeff Yoders

September 30, 2025

An analysis of thousands of construction projects using Hammertech's safety platform worldwide found that most construction safety incidents can be defined by three worksite mechanisms.

Picture of Erik Verboon, senior principal at Walter P Moore, wearing a dark suit jacket and white shirt.

Obituary: 1979–2025

Erik Verboon, 46, Walter P Moore Senior Principal, Left Big Legacy in Too Short Life

Facade engineer and director of its Enclosure Engineering practice, died "unexpectedly" last month. No cause of death was disclosed

September 30, 2025

Architect-engineer had co-led the firm’s New York City office and advanced enclosure design on projects from New Orleans Airport to Allianz Field stadium in St. Paul, Minn.

Technology

Nation’s Largest Quantum Computing Hub Breaks Ground at Former Chicago Steel Mill Site

The 440-acre site is slated to be redeveloped into a quantum campus with IBM and PsiQuantum as first tenants.

Annemarie Mannion

October 2, 2025

Plans are moving forward for construction of the Illinois Quantum & Microelectronics Park (IQMP), a 440-acre quantum innovation campus to be built on the site of the former U.S. Steel South Works site on Chicago’s southeast side.

Manufacturing

Virginia Wins $5B Eli Lilly Biomanufacturing Facility

State incentives and site readiness were deciding factors in location decision

September 29, 2025

Eli Lilly will invest $5B in a Goochland County, Va., facility to produce cancer therapies, creating 650 jobs in one of the state’s largest projects.

Mass Timber

Construction Kicks Off on 13-Story Mass Timber Building in Columbus, Ohio

Annemarie Mannion

September 30, 2025

Structural engineer says building's design improves the cross-laminated timber deck's structural performance by enabling longer spans and reducing deflections.

Sports

AECOM Hunt-Turner JV Selected for $2.4B Cleveland Browns' Stadium

The new stadium is planned to have a translucent, long-span roof without a truss.

Bruce Buckley

October 2, 2025

A joint venture of AECOM Hunt and Turner Construction has been tapped to build the new $2.4-billion Cleveland Browns stadium in suburban Brook Park.

Rendering of LAX Automated People Mover train on elevated guideway above Century Boulevard, tied to roadway reconfiguration awarded to Skanska-Flatiron JV.

Transportation

Skanska-Flatiron JV Wins $323M Roadway Contract at LAX

The joint venture will rebuild bridges, ramps, and utilities.

September 30, 2025

The award comes as officials announce delayed opening of the automated people mover.

4,700-ton variable density tunnel boring machine

TBM Finishes Work on Major Virginia Bridge-Tunnel Expansion

Paralleling a pair of existing two-lane tunnels, the new tubes are part of Virginia DOT’s largest-ever highway construction project

Jim Parsons

September 30, 2025

The Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel in Virginia reached another milestone.

Train entering a tunnel on a stone viaduct in India’s Himalayan foothills, illustrating the engineering challenges of building new cross-border rail lines into Bhutan.

Transportation Trade Routes

India, Bhutan Sign Pact on First-Ever Rail Link

Two alignments totaling 77 km will mark Bhutan’s first entry into the Indian rail grid

September 30, 2025

India and Bhutan take a major step in their infrastructure partnership, advancing a project that could reshape regional connectivity and open new opportunities for trade.

Partial Collapse of NYC Apartment Building Possibly Triggered by Boiler

Leslie Nemo

October 2, 2025

A corner of a New York City Housing Authority apartment building collapsed Wednesday morning, following a likely explosion in the 1960s-era building's boiler system.

Aerial view of the Northport Power Station in Suffolk County, New York.

Legal

Quanta Asks Judge to Block Award of $400M Long Island, NY Grid Contract to PSEG

Legal move in fight for grid management contract against incumbent operator serving 1.2 million customers

September 25, 2025

The legal move is the latest effort to secure the grid management contract from an incumbent operator serving 1.2 million customers.

Aerial photo of the Ismaili Center Houston with surrounding gardens and construction along Allen Parkway.

Built to Last

McCarthy Delivers Ismaili Center Houston, First of Its Kind in US

Landmark 150,000-sq-ft build with custom concrete and flood-resilient design to open this fall

September 29, 2025

McCarthy completes a cultural landmark in Texas, blending intricate concrete work and flood-resilient design.

Construction Technology

Procore Names Gopal Second CEO, Courtemanche to Become Executive Chairman

Jeff Yoders

September 25, 2025

Ajei Gopal will take over as CEO of Procore after current CEO Toohey Courtemanche becomes chairman of the company's board.

Tower Life Building in San Antonio, a 1929 neo-Gothic skyscraper undergoing redevelopment into apartments.

Adaptive Use

San Antonio’s Tower Life Building Being Reborn as Residences

Jordan Foster, McCombs team lead 242-unit adaptive reuse of iconic landmark office, with preservation safeguards and complex retrofits

September 26, 2025

Completed in 1929 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the 31-story tower is known for its green tile roof and ornamental gargoyles.

Pickup truck at edge of large Bangkok sinkhole exposing metro tunnels under construction.

Soil Conditions

Bangkok Sinkhole Forces Halt of $2.2B Subway Extension

Sept. 24 collapse tied to tunnel breach and ruptured water main

September 28, 2025

Thai government orders stabilization while contractor works under a 14-day deadline.

Transportation

Major Breakthrough for Brenner Base Tunnel Through the Alps

Completion of first exploratory tunnel advances record rail link

Jeff Rubenstone

September 22, 2025

A new rail link through the Alps passed a key milestone Sept. 18 when mining crews broke through the last diaphragm of a 57.5-km (35.7-mile) exploratory tunnel connecting Italy and Austria.

A joint search and rescue team, assisted by heavy equipment, is searching for and rescuing victims trapped in the collapse of an Islamic boarding school in Sidoarjo Regency, East Java, on Monday, Sept. 29.

Structural Failures

Indonesia School Building Collapse Kills 36, Construction Expansion Eyed as Cause

Investigators focus on column and foundation capacity during vertical expansion as forensic team deploys to site

October 6, 2025

Investigators are probing the cause of deadly school building collapse that raises fresh questions about construction oversight and structural safety standards.

Aerial view of Syphon Reservoir in Irvine, Calif., surrounded by suburban neighborhoods and hills.

Water Infrastructure

Engineers COWI, GFT Win $25.4M Contract on $291M Syphon Reservoir Upgrade

Joint venture to oversee construction management of California water district’s largest-ever capital project

September 30, 2025

Joint venture to oversee construction management of California water district’s largest-ever capital project, reshaping Orange County's recycled-water system.

Transit

Shortlist of Heavyweights Contending for $7.1B Austin Light Rail Project

Richard Korman

October 6, 2025

Design-build proposals are due in soon for the transit project, which faces an uncertain future due to yet-to-be-secured federal funding.

Government

Feds Tout Plans to Boost Coal Development in US to Address Grid Reliability

Pam McFarland

September 30, 2025

The Trump administration announces new steps and some funding to spur interest in coal, but observers are skeptical.

ENR Photo Contest Entry Deadline: Plan and Submit Soon

Richard Korman

October 9, 2025

ENR’s annual photo contest is a pictorial democracy without the politics. Almost anyone can submit photos taken between October 1, 2024 and November 30, 2025. The cover photo will be chosen by readers in a vote, and all winning images will be published in January.

History

From the Archives: April 3, 1958

Scott Lewis

October 9, 2025

This 1958 image shows an operator manning hydraulically powered collapsible forms for lining the North Central Outfall Sewer Tunnel in Los Angeles.

battlefields of Europe in the pages of ENR

Construction History | From the Archives

Engineers at the Front and Efforts at Home in World War I

Scott Lewis

October 9, 2025

When the U.S. entered World War I in April 1917, the nation had a standing army of only 100,000 troops. Efforts to recruit and train a fighting force 2 million strong and convert the economy to serve the war effort were all-consuming.

Viewpoint

Keep Your Guard Up in an Unpredictable Boom

Richard Korman

October 9, 2025

You can’t blame construction for getting stars in its eyes about the artificial intelligence revolution and the data centers needed to support it.

Industrial Leads for the Week of October 13, 2025

October 9, 2025

Information derived from Industrial Reports, a market intelligence firm specializing in industrial construction and equipment leads.

Construction Technology

Gilbane Rolls Out Trunk Tools AI Agents Across Its Jobsites

TrunkSubmittal, TrunkText and TrunkSOP will be used enterprise-wide

Jeff Yoders

September 26, 2025

The contractor's new AI-based tools, which can assist in building submittals and avoiding requests for information, will be used on 200 Gilbane projects in the U.S.in the next two years.

Louisiana Transportation Dept. Adopts Subsurface Data Tool

Aileen Cho

October 8, 2025

After Bentley Systems acquired subsurface modeling firm Seequent in 2021 for $1.05 billion, then-CEO Greg Bentley noted in 2023 that the potential for bringing subsurface data into digital twins and project planning was only starting to be tapped in construction.

Construction Economics for October 13, 2025

October 9, 2025